Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School, director of the Poliak
Center at Columbia Journalism School and a
contributing writer at NewYorker.com. He is best known for his work on Net Neutrality theory. He is author of The Master Switch, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination, and other works, and in 2013 he was named one of America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers.

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Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law
School, and director of the Poliak Center for the study of First Amendment Issues at
Columbia Journalism School. Wu's best known work is
the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about
private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His book The Master Switch has won wide recognition and various awards.

Wu worked at the Federal Trade Commission during the first term of the
Obama administration, and has also worked as Chair of Media reform
group Free Press, as a fellow at Google, and worked for Riverstone
Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for
Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from
McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.

Wu is a contributing writer at NewYorker.com
and a former contributing editor at The New Republic. He has been won
awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138
Magazine, and the World Economic Forum, and has twice won the Lowell
Thomas Award for travel writing.